Author Profile
Alice Walker
1944 • American • Author
219
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 219 quotesI just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.— Alice Walker
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.— Alice Walker
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.— Alice Walker
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.— Alice Walker
I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.— Alice Walker
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.— Alice Walker
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?— Alice Walker
I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.— Alice Walker
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.— Alice Walker
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.— Alice Walker